Energy holds supercomputing high ground

Energy holds supercomputing high ground

  • Jun 09, 2000
By Patricia Daukantas

GCN Staff

The government has the four fastest computers in with world, and 75 of the 500 fastest, as ranked on a semiannual list updated last week on the Web at www.top500.org.

Federally funded supercomputers captured seven of the top 10 spots on the latest list. Three Energy Department computers and a brand-new Navy machine hold the top four positions.

Another 13 federally funded systems appear on the list. Twenty-two of the 75 federal computers are listed as classified, without specifying a funding agency.

As in past years, Energy's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, a program for simulating on massively parallel computers the aging of nuclear weapons, tops the list.

The Intel ASCI Red supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., remains No. 1 with a Linpack performance of 2.38 trillion floating-point operations per second.

Two other ASCI machines, Blue Pacific at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., and Blue Mountain at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., remained second and third.






































































Top supercomputers
Rank
(federal/overall)		SupercomputerTFLOPSProcessors
1/1Intel ASCI Red at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M.2.389,632 Pentium III Xeons
2/2IBM ASCI Blue Pacific at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.2.145,808 PowerPC 604es
3/3SGI ASCI Blue Mountain at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M.1.616,144 MIPS R10000s
4/4IBM RS/6000 SP at Naval Oceanographic Office, Bay St. Louis, Miss.1.421,336 IBM Power3s
5/7Classified Cray T3E 12000.891,084 Alpha EV5s
6/8Cray T3E 1200 at Army HPC Research Center, Minneapolis0.891,084 Alpha EV5.6s
7/10Classified Cray T3E 9000.821,324 Alpha EV5s
8/11IBM RS/6000 SP at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.0.72704 IBM Power3s
9/12SGI Origin2000 Nirvana at Los Alamos lab0.692,048 MIPS R10000s
10/13Cray T3E 900 at Naval Oceanographic Office0.681,084 Alpha EV5s

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